Bardiya
Sign in to saveBardiya or Smerdis ( ; ; possibly died 522 BCE), also named as Tanyoxarces (; ) by Ctesias, was a son of Cyrus the Great and the younger brother of Cambyses II, both Persian kings. There are sharply divided views on his life. Bardiya either ruled the Achaemenid Empire for a few months in 522 BCE, or was impersonated by a magus called Gaumata ( ), whose name is given by Ctesias as Sphendadates (; ), until he was toppled by Darius the Great.
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Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Bardiya𐎲𐎼𐎮𐎡𐎹
- Royalty.image
- Gaumata portrait on the Behistun inscription.jpg
- Royalty.caption
- Portrait of the Achaemenid ruler toppled by Darius, as appearing on the Behistun inscription: he was either the legitimate Bardiya, or, as claimed by Darius, an imposter named Gaumāta.
- Royalty.succession
- King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire,Pharaoh of Egypt
- Royalty.reign
- 522 BC
- Royalty.predecessor
- Cambyses II
- Royalty.successor
- Darius the Great
- Royalty.burial_date
- 522 BC
- Royalty.spouse
- Phaedymia
- Royalty.issue
- Parmys
- Royalty.dynasty
- Achaemenid (Teispid)
- Royalty.father
- Cyrus the Great
Key dates
- Died
- 29 September 522 BCE
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Achaemenid Empire
- Place of birth
- Pasargadae
- Place of death
- Pasargadae
- Spouse
- Phaedymia
- Child
- Parmys
- Father
- Cyrus the Great
- Mother
- Cassandane
- Sibling
- Artystone
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- Name and sources
- Traditional view
- In Herodotus' ''Histories''
- In Ctesias' ''Persica''
- Modern view
- Aftermath
- Bardiya in fiction
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Bardiya or Smerdis ( ; ; possibly died 522 BCE), also named as Tanyoxarces (; ) by Ctesias, was a son of Cyrus the Great and the younger brother of Cambyses II, both Persian kings. There are sharply divided views on his life. Bardiya either ruled the Achaemenid Empire for a few months in 522 BCE, or was impersonated by a magus called Gaumata ( ), whose name is given by Ctesias as Sphendadates (; ), until he was toppled by Darius the Great.
==Name and sources== The prince's name is listed variously in the historical sources. In Darius the Great's Behistun inscription, his Persian name is Bardiya or Bardia. Herodotus calls him Smerdis, which is the prevalent Greek form of his name; the Persian name has been assimilated to the Greek (Asiatic) name Smerdis or Smerdies, a name which also occurs in the poems of Alcaeus and Anacreon. Bardiya is called Tanyoxarces by Ctesias, who also names Gaumāta as Sphendadates; he is called Tanooxares by Xenophon, who takes the name from Ctesias, and he is called Mergis and Merdis by Justin and Merdis by Aeschylus.